straight answer is YES, cheap hosting can be quality hosting. to some some extent you can say no due to lack of support or lots of down time.
why cheap ?
may be due to some promotional activity.
may be to cover the cost of expenses.
may be just to make good name.
may be to cover sales targets.
Yeah Domainator.... you are right...
For example there is this host called hostgator.com. They offer huge hosting spaces for shared hosting accounts... but then I deceided to go through the Terms of Services agreement. I founf one point. It read that there was a maximum file limit of 50000. Which mans even if I get a 300gb shared hosting account. I can upload only a maximum of 50000 files... Now thats ridiculous, because if I upload 50000 images of 5 kb each then I will end up filling only 250Mb!! Now I think they have founf an easy way of tricking their customers...
I needed shared hosting and I approached RackSpace... I did this because I heard that Youtube was once their customer... But when I had a chat with the sales person I was informed that they offered only dedicated servers....
The sales person directed me to Mosso.com for shared hosting...
She also told me that RackSpace was an investor in Mosso.
So thats a bit of info for you guys...
Last edited by leusmith : 11-09-2007 at 11:53 PM.
Reason: added some information....
wow
if your site even needs 50,000 files, then maybe you should have your own dedicated server. No one in the real world would probably ever need that many files on their simple webhosting account.
I say simple, because no advanced website would be using shared hosting.
50,000 is alot of files. Might not sound like alot, but it is.
Yeah, rackspace is an investor of Mosso. It's on Mosso's website. Also, cheap hosting can definitely be quality hosting. You just need to find a good responsible host, who doesn't do extreme overselling (IE 1000GB of diskspace, 10000GB bandwidth for $1 per month).
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Semi-dedicated might be cheaper than a clustered solution.
I see the thread is going on, and my conclusion from all that has been written above, is that you can choose a cheap package if you have a very precise idea of what your needs are and why the particular hosting company charges this for a plan.
The companies I mentioned in my initial post 1and1.com and webhostingbuzz.com manage to sell 750 GB of disk space, and the pricing is budget, around $3.95. So what does a person looking to host a smaller website thinks about it? The price is cheap and the amount of space is immense, so will a person go to a different company with BIGGER price and SMALLER space?
some info and about Mosso.com hosting... 
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